Bible Verses About The Diet of the Jews of the Rich, Luxurious

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: